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'Pretenders’ singer to bring project to PSU
By Heather Panetta
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Kicking off their first tour, JR
Chrissie and The Fairground Boys
along with special guest Amy
Correia will perform at 8
tonight at the State Theatre, 130
W. College Ave.
This is the band’s first tour as a
group together, which includes JP
Jones and Chrissie Hynde from
The Pretenders.
“This is a new project for
Chrissie Hynde and that is what
attracted me to this tour,” said
Mike Negra, the former executive
director of the State Theatre.
“Chrissie’s voice is unmistakable.
You know where her roots are.”
Jones met Hynde at a party in
London in November 2008,
according to their website. They
continued to talk after that and
eventually formed their band,
which released its debut album
titled “Fidelity!” last month.
Festival
funds new
theater
By David Strader
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
A new music venue is in the
works: Add Shaver’s Creek
Environmental Center to the list.
Shaver’s Creek hosted its first
music festival Sunday, with the
event’s proceeds going toward
the construction of an outdoor
amphitheater to stage future pre
sentations, musical and other
wise.
Eric Burkhart, program direc
tor at Shaver’s Creek, said the
future theater will be a covered,
multifunctional stage.
“It will be not only an arts
space, but a teaching space as
well,” he said. “It should also fit in
nicely with the landscape.”
Becky Conner, Class of 2010,
said the new stage will strength
en the center’s appeal for the
community.
“It will really open the doors for
things like this festival,” she said.
“I hope it brings a lot of music into
people’s lives.”
The festival hosted six bands
with styles rooted in bluegrass,
folk, indie-rock and Americana.
The bands that performed
included Wissahickon Chicken
Shack, Ted and the Hi-Fi’s, Tolins’
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Jones is half Hynde’s age, which
Kristy Cyone, marketing director
for the State Theatre, said is one of
the reasons Hynde found his
music refreshing. This was some
thing Hynde hadn’t done before,
Cyone added.
“The music has more of a youth
ful edge because she is working
with a younger singer-song
writer,” Cyone said.
Bellefonte resident Irene
Jaglowski, who is going to the
event, said that though she has
never heard of JR Chrissie and
The Fairground Boys, she is a fan
of Hynde from her time with The
Pretenders.
“I’m interested in seeing what
she will do with this type of band,”
Jaglowski said.
Special guest Correia bumped
into JR Chrissie and The
Fairground Boys when they were
performing at the same venue.
The band asked her to go on tour
with them on the spot, Correia
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Bryan Homan, stand-up bass
player for Tussey Mountain
Moonshiners, said bands of these
styles were very fitting for the
environmental center.
“I love this rootsy kind of
music,” he said. “It’s beautiful,
and it goes hand-in-hand with
being in the woods, so this is the
perfect setting.”
Burkhart said the musig festi
val sold more than 100 tickets
before the day of the event, and
he expected a total of a few hun
dred to be sold by the end of the
night.
Susan Wentzel, 48, of
Huntingdon, Pa., said tickets
were well worth the price.
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more enjoyable than others," she
said. “To be able to give money
and get something like this festi
val in return is a rewarding
opportunity.”
In addition to the music, festi
val attendees were able to hike
nature trails in the area, buy food
from various vendors and visit the
center’s collection of reptiles,
amphibians and birds of prey.
Dustin Brackbill, 36, of
Boalsburg, Pa., said he enjoyed
the activities presented by
Shaver’s Creek.
“My son goes to summer camp
here, and he just loves the ani
mals,” Brackbill said. “And we
also just come out here to go for a
hike sometimes.”
Burkhart said he hopes the
music festival will ultimately raise
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said, something which is unusual.
“That doesn’t really happen,”
she said. “I’m a big fan of Chrissie
Hynde and I’m really excited to be
a part of it.”
Correia said she has been
singing for about 10 years and
started performing in New York
City about five years ago.
She recently released her third
album “You Go Your Way,” which
her fans raised about $37,000 to
fund.
“Artists are having to find new
ways to fund projects," Correia
said. “Before I tried this I didn't
have knowledge of who was really
supportive and fans. Through this
I found out who they were.”
Correia writes her songs on the
guitar, ukulele and piano and said
there is a blues gospel streak that
runs through her music.
“I tend to take on a character.”
she said. “In the lyrics there’s a
narrative thread they’re songs
that have a story."
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JP, Chrissie and The Fairground Boys will play at State Theatre tonight.
One song. “Powder Blue Trans them to first think about the
Am,” tells the story of an older music.
woman having trouble getting her
man, Correia said.
“It's a raw song about getting band together. It has to start with
older and sexual frustration," she the music,” she said. “It’s really
said. important to do it and be out there.
For students interested in per-
forming, Correia encourages
State Theatre hosts
global film festival
By Lauren Ingeno
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
“One world. One Week. One
Festival.”
That is the tagline for the
world’s first global film festival,
which is taking place this week in
over 200 different cities.
The audiences that attended
the Manhattan Short Film
Festival on Sunday night had the
chance to play judge and vote for
their favorite as they watched 10
different films, in six different lan
guages and from 10 different
countries.
For the third time in a row, The
State Theatre, 130 W. College
Ave., chose to take part in the fes
tival, hosting three different
screenings one after another.
Each attendee was handed a
ballot and was asked to check off
their favorite film and hand it in at
the end of screening.
The festival creator, Nicolas
Mason, appeared in a clip after
the showing to assure everyone
that their votes really counted.
“Last year there were a total of
68,000 votes and only 126 votes
separated first and second
place," Mason said.
Though each filmmaker pre
sented a unique film, the audi
ence seemed to agree that the
recurring trends throughout the
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form to get out there and put a
festival were darkness and ambi
guity.
“I thought it was a bit depress
ing,” Olga Titova (senior-econom
ics) said.
Natalia Schyrba (senior-inter
national politics and psychology)
said that this was the third year
that she has attended the festival
and she was disappointed with
the lack of variety between the
films this year.
“The first year I came there
was a very nice mix of comedy
and drama,” Schyrba said. “What
I like about short films is that
there is this confusion in the
beginning and then you have that
aha’ moment. These films didn’t
really have that. There were
many unresolved endings*”
This year included a variety of
scenarios from the groups,
including a pair of young illegal
immigrants sneaking into the
U.S., a trio of boys that have a
breath-holding contest gone
wrong and a police investigator
reconstructing a brutal murder.
Kent Thonkin an Altoona
resident said he traveled to
State College because he heard
from previous years'that it was a
really good festival. But Thonkin
agreed that the films were gener
ally disappointing.
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